PraiseTune is the app worship teams, worship leaders and church musicians use to manage lyrics, chords, collections and setlists in one place. PraiseTune 1.1 is available today. It’s not an update that changes the app’s structure, like teams and collections did: it’s a batch of improvements born from real situations reported by people who use the app every week.
A few examples. You wanted to hand over your entire repertoire to another church or group, but keep the originals for yourself, and there was no direct way to do it. You tried to create a setlist inside “My Songs” and nothing understandable happened, or you tried to add a song and just saw “empty” with no idea why. You switched between teams with a menu that, in some situations, disappeared entirely, leaving you with no clear way back to Explore or your profile. You searched for a song written with a different dash than the one in the original title, and search couldn’t find it.
They’re all small things, but they’re the kind of friction you notice every time it repeats. Here’s what changes, in summary. Each section links to a deep dive with all the details and steps.
Duplicate, move and share a collection
If you want to hand a repertoire over to another group or church, but keep the originals for your own team, a collection can now be duplicated, creating independent copies of every song (or leaving them linked to the original, if sharing is all you need). It can also be moved entirely to another team when it ended up in the wrong place, or shared with another team without moving it, when you just need someone else to see it. On top of that, you can now create a collection on the fly from all the songs in a search or a setlist.
Alongside this comes a different but equally concrete problem: what to do when you no longer want to be part of a team, or when whoever created a team is no longer involved but still holds all the power. You can now leave a team you no longer want to be part of, and an admin can remove the creator status from someone who no longer exercises it, even though a creator normally has every permission by default.
All the details, step by step, in duplicate, move and share a collection on PraiseTune.
Duplicate and delete multiple songs together
The same need, doing it in bulk instead of one at a time, applies to individual songs too. With multi-select you can now duplicate several songs at once (the copies land in a new collection inside “My Songs”), delete them for good, or share/copy them directly to another team.
Full guide in duplicate and delete multiple songs on PraiseTune.
A side menu that follows you everywhere
The menu for switching between teams used to be just a way to pick a team: it’s now the app’s main navigation wherever the bottom tab bar isn’t there. The goal is the same one that’s driven PraiseTune from the start: being comfortable to use. The interface as it was before sometimes left it unclear where you were or how to get back to Explore or your profile; now the menu hosts both of those too, and the app also remembers the last tab you had open instead of always starting from the same one.
It’s all explained in PraiseTune’s new side menu.
Find and sort your songs faster
Explore gets an expandable search pill identical to the one already in the Team tab, plus a “Search everywhere” button to step outside your team’s filter when you need to, and a button to write a song with no extra steps. Search itself has also become more forgiving about dashes, punctuation and apostrophes.
On top of that, you can now sort songs by date added or date created, alongside alphabetical and numeric order. You can also reverse alphabetical and numeric order: handy when you’re browsing a list and want to see the most recent entries first, without scrolling all the way down every time.
Details in find and sort your songs faster on PraiseTune.
A few other small fixes
Not everything deserves its own article, but it’s worth knowing about:
- Trying to create a setlist inside “My Songs” now explains why it’s not possible (setlists live inside a team) and immediately offers to pick or create one, instead of nothing happening.
- In the editor, while working on a section, you can now add a new section right below it, alongside the older “add at the end” option.
- The capo now resets automatically every time you open a song, both in the song view and in the PDF export. It used to stay set even when switching to a different song, meant to mimic a capo left on a real guitar, but this led more than one person to start a song in the wrong key without noticing. Now it always starts back at zero: reset it song by song if you need it.
- Fixed a bug where some inline chords could come out broken in certain notation combinations.
- Modal windows no longer get covered by the keyboard when you open a text field inside them.
- A few small visual touches: no more black flashes at the edges during a page’s closing animation, and a loading animation with no more visual glitches.
In short
PraiseTune 1.1 doesn’t add one isolated feature: it adds the tools to manage things in bulk that used to require doing them song by song or collection by collection, makes it clearer where you are and what you can do, and removes a couple of small traps that were easy to fall into without noticing. If you manage a large repertoire or several teams, this is the update that saves you the most wasted time.
If you’re still setting up your repertoire from scratch, start with how to convert a PDF to ChordPro or managing setlists and songs at church without chaos.
Frequently asked questions
Is PraiseTune 1.1 already available? Yes, as of today, as a free update for everyone on iOS, Android, macOS and Windows.
Do I need to do anything to turn these features on? No. Just update the app: the new options show up on their own in collections’ ”…” menus and in songs’ multi-select mode.
Are these features included in the Free plan? Yes, every feature described in this article is available regardless of your plan. The existing limits on the number of songs for the Free plan stay the same.
Where do I find the details for each individual feature? In the four deep dives linked above, each with a step-by-step explanation of that action.
PraiseTune 1.1 is available today. If you haven’t already, download PraiseTune on App Store and Google Play.